Original Word: συνέδριον, ου, τόPart of Speech: Noun, NeuterTransliteration: sunedrionPhonetic Spelling: (soon-ed'-ree-on)Short Definition: a council, the SanhedrinDefinition: a council, tribunal; the Sanhedrin, the meeting place of the Sanhedrin.

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4892synédrion (from 4862/sýn, "identified with" and hedra, "a convening, sitting together") – "a council of leading Jews (Mk 13:9, Mt 10:17), or the Jewish council at Jerusalem, the Sanhedrin (Aramaic form of synedrion), the High Court, the Senate, composed of 71 members comprising members of: high-priestly families, Pharisees learned in the law, and a lay element of Elders" (Souter).

4892 (synédrion) is also used of the smaller councils ("lower courts") throughout Israel which consisted of 23 members (cf. Mt 5:21,22).

a.the Sanhedrin, the great council at Jerusalem (Talmud, סַנְהֵדְרִין), consisting of seventy-one members, viz. scribes (see γραμματεύς, 2), elders, prominent members of the high priestly families (hence, called ἀρχιερεῖς; see ἀρχειρευς, 2), and the high priest, the president of the body. The fullest periphrasis for Sanhedrin is found in Matthew 26:3RG; Mark 14:43, 53 (viz. οἱἀρχιερεῖςκαίοἱγραμματεῖςκαίοἱπρεσβύτεροι). The more important causes were brought before this tribunal, inasmuch as the Roman rulers of Judaea had left to it the power of trying such cases, and also of pronouncing sentence of death, with the limitation that a capital sentence pronounced by the Sanhedrin was not valid unless it were confirmed by the Roman procurator (cf. John 18:31; Josephus, Antiquities 20, 9, 1). The Jews trace the origin of the Sanhedrin to Numbers 11:16f. The Sanhedrin (A. V.council) is mentioned in Matthew 5:22; Matthew 26:59; Mark 14:55; Mark 15:1; Luke 22:66;. Acts 4:15; Acts 5:21, 27, 34, 41; Acts 6:12, 15; Acts 22:30; Acts 23:1, 6, 15, 20, 28; Acts 24:20; used ((as in classical Greek)) of the place of meeting in Acts 4:15.

Mark 13:9N-ANPGRK:ὑμᾶς εἰς συνέδρια καὶ εἰςNAS: for they will deliver you to [the] courts, and you will be floggedKJV: up to councils; and inINT: you to courts and to

Mark 14:55N-NNSGRK:ὅλον τὸ συνέδριον ἐζήτουν κατὰNAS: and the whole Council kept trying to obtainKJV: and all the council sought for witnessINT: all the Council sought against

Mark 15:1N-NNSGRK:ὅλον τὸ συνέδριον δήσαντες τὸνNAS: and the whole Council, immediatelyKJV: the whole council, and boundINT: all the Council having bound

Luke 22:66N-ANSGRK:εἰς τὸ συνέδριον αὐτῶν λέγοντεςNAS: and they led Him away to their council [chamber], saying,KJV: into their council, saying,INT: into the council of them saying

John 11:47N-ANSGRK:οἱ Φαρισαῖοι συνέδριον καὶ ἔλεγονNAS: convened a council, and were saying,KJV: and the Pharisees a council, and said,INT: the Pharisees a council and said

Acts 4:15N-GNSGRK:ἔξω τοῦ συνεδρίου ἀπελθεῖν συνέβαλλονNAS: them to leave the Council, they [began] to conferKJV: out of the council, they conferredINT: outside the Council to go they conferred

Acts 5:21N-ANSGRK:συνεκάλεσαν τὸ συνέδριον καὶ πᾶσανNAS: they called the Council together,KJV: and called the council together,INT: they called together the Council and all

Acts 5:27N-DNSGRK:ἐν τῷ συνεδρίῳ καὶ ἐπηρώτησενNAS: them before the Council. The high priestKJV: [them] before the council: andINT: in the Council And asked

Acts 5:34N-DNSGRK:ἐν τῷ συνεδρίῳ Φαρισαῖος ὀνόματιNAS: stood up in the Council and gave ordersKJV: one in the council, a Pharisee, namedINT: in the Council a Pharisee by name

Acts 5:41N-GNSGRK:προσώπου τοῦ συνεδρίου ὅτι κατηξιώθησανNAS: from the presence of the Council, rejoicingKJV: the presence of the council, rejoicingINT: [the] presence of the Council that they were counted worthy